Warrant issued to arrest ex-secy Abu Karim

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant against recently force-retired information secretary ATM Fazlul Karim alias Abu Karim in a defamation case filed for writing a verse criticising Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members.
After scrutinising the documents submitted by the complainant of the case, Metropolitan Magistrate Kanika Bishwas took the charges against the accused into cognisance and passed the arrest warrant and fixed May 14 for next hearing of the case.
On February 22, Hazrat Moulana Mohammad Elias Hossain Bin Helali, president of Bangladesh Awami Olama League Central Committee, filed the case against Abu Karim with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka for committing the offence.
After the hearing, the same magistrate recorded statement of the complainant and fixed yesterday for order on the issue subject to submission of a copy of the book.